What the panel ordered
Findings and Award issued on October 14, 2021, rescinded; matter remanded to WCJ to consider stipulations and conduct further proceedings as appropriate.
Petition for reconsideration of the Findings and Award issued by the WCJ on October 14, 2021, was granted for further study and settlement conference.
What was disputed, and how it came out
Each issue the panel decided, with the reasoning it gave. An outcome is what this panel did on this record — not a rule, and not a prediction.
The parties stipulated to a higher permanent partial disability rating of 37%, superseding the WCJ's original 29% rating, leading to remand for WCJ to consider the stipulation.
From the decision · page 1applicant, petitioned for reconsideration of the Findings and Award issued by the workers' compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) in this matter on October 14, 2021. In that decision, the WCJ found that applicant's injury to her wrists, hands and fingers arising out of and in the course of her employment as a legal secretary by defendant, State Compensation Insurance Fund, legally uninsured, during the period February 14, 2017 through February 14, 2018, caused permanent partial disability of 29%.
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.
The parties filed a fully executed Stipulations With Request for Award stipulating that applicant's injury caused permanent partial disability of 37%.
Favours Applicant prevailed
This stipulation superseded the WCJ's original 29% rating and led to remand for the WCJ to consider the stipulations.
From the decision · page 1We granted reconsideration to further study the factual and legal issues presented. Subsequently, the parties participated in a commissioners' settlement conference at our request. On August 5, 2022, the parties filed a fully executed Stipulations With Request for Award in which the parties stipulated that applicant's injury caused permanent partial disability of 37%.
The rules the panel named
Authorities as the decision cited them, with how this panel applied each one.
Labor Code
Labor Code provisions governing permanent partial disability ratings and reconsideration procedures
Applied to the dispute over the permanent partial disability rating and the petition for reconsideration.
From the decision · page 1applicant, petitioned for reconsideration of the Findings and Award issued by the workers' compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) in this matter on October 14, 2021. In that decision, the WCJ found that applicant's injury to her wrists, hands and fingers arising out of and in the course of her employment as a legal secretary by defendant, State Compensation Insurance Fund, legally uninsured, during the period February 14, 2017 through February 14, 2018, caused permanent partial disability of 29%.
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